Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Clearing and colJer aide lo defeat only Hutpers and Columhia in a nine-frame schedule. Fillinply enoufih. both of these victories were scored at home, with the Columbia encounter sending some 10.000 Houseparties week- end fans home ha()[)y. Twenlyfour seniors bowed out in a blaze of filory. as Ru.-- Smale. Dick Cal- kins, and Hank I ' rv rotilribnted to ' lie avalanche of points rolled up b the Indians. However, the fall sports picture n. brightened considerably by the |)erformance of the occer and cros.s-country squads. The harriers won three of their five meets, while Coach Tuniiiu Diiil s kick- ers captured the New England League champion- ship with a record of seven wins in nine games. Furlher individual honors were won by seniors Jack Hall and John Rice, who were named to the All-American collegiate soccer team, and the Squire of School Street was picked to coacli ai all-star aggregation of college players who jour neyed to Berniiida during the Christmas holidays Interest in I he jiresidential campaign ran higl: among students and faculty alike. Campaign news reels at the Nugget j)rovided the more enthusiastic students uilli ati oppurluiiily lo express their pref- Pace 10

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the number of liooi;- and the total iiuiiiher of resi- dents in each building. Its otlier activities included the regulation of traffic during the big weekends, and the sponsoring of Commons dances at House- [tarties and Winter Carnival. Meanwhile, the Interfraternity Council, com- prised ot the ]iresidents of the Iwentv-three houses on campus, continued to coordinate all im])ortant fraternity activities. New rushing regulations for sophomores were instituted, and interest in special house programs including various guest s])eakers was noticeably slinnilaled. The IFC also undertook to handlf the jiroblem of discriminatory clauses on its own. feeling that this arrangement would provide a basis for more direct and effective action on the part of those bouses concerned. Competition among the fraternities on all levels during the past year was unusually spirited. The trophy for all-around excellence during llie 1951-1952 academic year was won bv Psi Ipsilon. with Delta I psiloii. Alpha Theta and Kappa Sigma following in that order. The lOOtli anniversary of the death of Daniel W ' ebsler was commemorated by the college with a display in Baker Library of se eral of his jiersonal effects from his student days, inthiding his buggy which reposed in the main ball near ihe circulation desk. A sjiecial Daniel W ebsler convocation vas in- cluded In ibc Iradilional Darltnouth Night cere- monies, at which lime President Dickey announced the gift of one million dollars from an anonymous donor to be used for the establishment of twenty Daniel Webster National Scholarshi|)s. The night ' s festivities wvvv concluded on the stejis of Dart- mnulii Hall llb ihe reading of telegrams from aiious alunnii groups, followed by a pej) rally and the Iradilional bonfire in ihe center of camjius. Coach Tuss McLaughry ' s gridiron warriors, op- erating under the new Ivy League no spring prac- tice reslrictions for the first time, found jiickings somewhal lean. Mlliough several individuals shone for the Green on both offense and defense in this final year of two platoon play, the Indians were P. GE 9 Cap Gatidreau and An Kieiull take things in liand

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ereiices and to exercise their voral cords at the same time, much to the peneral discomfilure of Hanover ' s more conservative ])artisans. A debate on ' ' The Is- sues of the Election took the jdace ol a regular Monday night G.I. lecture, and resulted in a clear- cut victory for the Kepuhlicans. However, the glory of victory was somewhat tarnished by the fact that one of the two speakers scheduled to argue the Democratic cause reportedly spent the greater part of the evening incarcerated at the Rowing riuh boathouse. A series of ])olls conducted by Tlir Darlmoiilh showed sentiment among the student body favoring Eisenhower bv a margin of nearlv three to one, but the percentage of those expressing confidence in his chances of victory was somewhat smaller. Although some sixty members of the faculty pub- licly declared their support of Stevenson through the medium of the Oldest College ! ews|)a|)er in .America, a similar poll which reached ajijiroxi- mately half of the teaching staff indicated that five out of eight favored Eisenhower. The campus took on the a])]iearance of a full- fledged niilitarv base everv Mondav afternoon as memljers of the Army. Navy and Air Force R.O.T.C. units spent long hours in drills and marching techniques. I o one could deny the ever- increasing importance of these units in the life of the college, as the country looked to its younger men to form the backbone of a vast military power Kt ' iiirnilKT when the flirk was in Wclistcr? Tile Slciran oiis. Antic experts I)olenlial. The significant fact that a Dartmouth student enrolled in one of these programs spends approximately twenty |)ercent of his classroom time in R.O.T.C. courses caused the faculty to revise the requirement for the major in almost every depart- ment, ill most cases reducing the number of com- pulsory courses in order that the student might en- joy a wider range of electives. The ideal of the new system, which goes into effect with the Class of IQSl. is one which seeks to maintain the essential liberal arts nature of the college curriculum while at the same time alloting necessary time to those courses required of all R.O.T.C. students. Page 11